Male Partner Involvement on Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV And Associated Factors Among Pregnant Mothers Attending Antenatal Care at Nifas Silk Lafto Subcity Public Health Facilities, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2023 G.C

Background: -Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that weakens the immune system of an individual exposing the body to several opportunistic infections. Although the main mode of HIV transmission is through unprotected sexual intercourse, a significant number of vertical transmissions also occur from other to child. However, few studies are done on the involvement of Knowledge, attitude and practice of male engagement in Ethiopia, and no study done particularly in the study area Objective: - To assess Male Partner Involvement on Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV And Associated Factors Among Pregnant Mothers Attending Antenatal Care at Nifas silk Lafto Sub city Public Health Facilities, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2023 G.C Methods and materials: Facility based cross sectional study was conducted from June 1 to June 30 2023, in Nifas silk Lafto sub city Addis Ababa. The data was extracted from 122 Study participants. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, proportion was used to describe the study population. A multivariate logistic regression analysis was carried out to identify independent predictors of Knowledge, attitude and practice of male engagement on prevention of mother to child transmission on HIV and associated factors among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in Nifas silk and variables with a p-value <0.05 was considered to be statistically significant Conclusion and recommendation: This study focused on the assessment of male partner involvement on prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV and associated factors among pregnant mothers attending antenatal care at Nifas silk Lafto Sub city Public Health Facilities, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In this study the overall male partner involvement is high. Those factors like having those participants who had good attitude, participants who have three or less children, partners who are Live together and those who has good knowledge, decreasing number of children by using family planning, Awareness creation on the advantages of male involvement for PMTCT, Live together with partner, Increasing the knowledge of is recommended.